Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Patriarch left, the President's desk phone rang. On the other end of the line was W. J. Pace, a farmer of Alamance County, N.C. Farmer Pace was calling because he is the proud owner of the one-millionth rural telephone installed by the Bell system since V-J day. He and the President chatted for a short time, and Mr. Truman learned that there are now 2,330,000 rural telephones...
...Disturbed over the business he was obviously losing in off-hours, "Red" Kilgore last week set up a coin-operated salesman in his front window. By inserting a quarter in it, an off-hour window shopper can verbally order any item on display, have his name, address and phone number recorded on a tape inside. Next morning, store clerks transcribe the tape, recheck with customers by phone, and send out the orders. Kilgore, who plans to manufacture and lease the gadget, already has more than 300 orders for it from other stores...
...Naval Reserve officer with a quarterdeck voice and a manner to match. With him, Olivia has emphatically settled down. She has dropped all the friends of her fluttery, bachelor-girl days. When one of them (a middle-aged producer) recently tried to speak to her on the phone, he was informed that Mrs. Goodrich's former bachelor friends were no longer welcome. Said the dazed producer later: "What do I have to do to talk to her-get married...
...Dress. In Sacramento, Municipal Court Clerk Mrs. Nola Lowery got a phone call from a woman who wanted advice on the appropriate thing to wear when she appeared to pay a traffic fine...
...down with impatience by now. The hotel maid came out in the hall to watch. "Oh my yes," replied Miss Cam to my question, "I much admire Dorothy Canfield and I read a novel about New Orleans--what was it? which I liked very much." She picked up the phone and smiled with anticipation. As I walked down the dark hallway, past the still inquisitive chambermaid, I could hear Helen Mand Cam in process of accepting another invitation to speak. No dust will settle while she's about...